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Do you think there's any room in people's imaginations for a rethink of html?
The browser war seems like it's going to a dark place but modern browsers are too complicated for any one person or small group to seriously reimplement.
When I was playing with my blog pelican theme I tried to make it work well in dillo too but dillo is just soooo cut back it was hard to make what dillo showed make sense and still have control over the page layout.
I wonder if what we need is a brutally lean graphical markup language and renderer, not as an entirely serious replacement for firefox or chrome, but just poised to stand in as an open ecosystem alternative.
Perhaps it could in some small way be a deterrent to the big browsers getting _too_ anti-consumer? If I have the option of leaving the bloated html/js ecosystem, well.. that changes things right?
Most sites the actual html is unreadable right? I wonder if we should embrace that and make like a graphical bytecode well optimised for compression. A set of virtual machine instructions for going "put this here", "write this in this font there", "make a text box"
Once upon a time the paradigm was "let the browser choose how to display things" but so much of modern web development first requires you to counteract those features. It's a mess!
@zeska you would probably want some capability to do simple calculations, and when its perfect you could call this "Display PostScript".
@idiot you've sent me down a rabbit hole of "could postscript do this job? Why doesn't postscript do this job? Why did html win out?"